Open your eyes

Can't upvote this enough...so here's some more evidence. Today is the 6 year anniversary of where Syria's troubles began. I don't think it's a coincidence.

https://twitter.com/FSAPlatform/status/947185605112401921?s=17

By the way...many many people who are fortunate enough to still be alive in Syria consider the FSA to be terrorists. Not that the FSA gives a shit.

Agree , FSA is not the true Syrian Armed Forces.

How about this?

you mean the government owned mouthpiece of Qatar? which has historically been incredibly anti-shia, and until recently an enemy of Iran?

you might as well have linked the washington post.

I suppose you paid no mind to my former professor, who is in Iran.... but hey you seem to have all the answers.

welcome to the internet where you offhand claim means fuck all and no one believes you anyway, you might as well claim you are an astronaut and supermans little brother as far as i am concerned.

It's the pattern. I've posted about this before.

1. Said country is so terrible and awful (media portrayal)
2. Said country oppresses ________ and stones/saws/knifes/spoons them to death
3. College students are protesting the atrocities against __________
4. We should all believe the students protesting (as long as it's not protests inside the US, in which case then we're all hippy scumbag socialists)
5. Popular protest is now spreading oh boy look at them dreaming of freedom to get obese and chug Coca Cola
6. US INTERVENES AND KILLS THE SHIT OUT OF THE ENEMY EVERYONE CAN NOW REST EASY

US State Department Hints at Iran Overthrow

Any large protest that goes on for any amount of time will be co-opted and influenced by power players. Its just a matter of who is influencing and supporting them, not if.

Important to realize this. Regime changes are seldom grassroots. The protests that lead to them can be.

The right questions, in my opinion, are the ones that look down the path at both the forces that want Iranian leadership t stay where it is and those that want it overturned, and see what, exactly, those people think would be best in the region...and why.

The protests and the PR campaigns behind them are inconsequential in the long run.

the people that start these grassroots movements are refereed to as useful idiots.

They are likely genuine!

The two questions are:

(1) What are the political and policy aims behind the main groups of protestors and;

(2) To what extent is a repeat of 1979 preventable, where very "genuine" protests against corruption were co-opted by radical theocrats who then took over the country for nearly 40 years now.

Many people don't realize in the dynamics of Iran. The government is much more authoritarian and religious than the populace.

Curious note, being a chess player/fan following large tournaments. Iranian chess players automatically forfeit to Isreali chess players. This is sports wide I'm told. Two Iranian expat masters broke this rule and got kicked out of the Iranian national team and forbid from playing any tournaments in the country.

Everything I've seen and witnessed portrays a populace much less extreme than the oppressive religious government. These protests fit the bill.

Protest?

Who is claiming these protests aren't genuine? I haven't seen any of that.... Yet, anyway.

Of course Iranians are mad that their country is a pariah (thanks to israel and the US) and that the oil price is still in the gutter ( thanks US and Saudis). But anyone with a brain has the right to be skeptical of any "popular uprising" going back to at least the french revolution. Iranians need to know israel/US will NEVER accept them until they have a subservient quisling government whose main role is to SELL THEM OUT. Guys, the most hardliner Shia theocracy is preferable to what the zionists have planned for you.

No, I'm sure the protests are genuine. My personal belief is that the Iranian government is much closer to the global establishment than would first be apparent.

I have never seen protests like what had become a cookie cutter productions in this last several years. Streets streaming with tens of thousands of protesters. Organic protests are not that organized. Ukraine, Arab Spring, S Korea, South America, US antifa... All very similar. Same rhetoric. I do not believe it for one minute.

Antifa was protesting rising food prices and Iranian military interference in Lebanon? Weird. I don't remember that rhetoric from them.

I wonder who made that statement.

Actual antifa could not articulate what they were protesting.

Who protests rising food prices with uprisings?

Puhleeze, these charades are getting really old.

Who protests rising food prices with uprisings?

People who have real life threatening food shortages. Tunisia. Venezuela. Iran.

Antifa is not protesting these things, because that's not the issue in the US. They're also not that organized. So I guess that must mean they're organic.

Venezuela is starving, not so in Iran. Antifa is organized to point of being bussed in and hired from crailgslist.

There's no way to tell whether they are legitimate from here, especially so soon. Anyone claiming to know if they are legitimate must bring forward a LOT of evidence to convince.

I can’t believe this garbage has so many upvotes

considering whats going on in Syria right now i highly doubt its grassroots. Israel has lost its proxy war and Hezbollah and Iran are stronger as a result.

really? i see them trying so hard to convince us westerners that yet again a small fringe protest is something a 1000x bigger than it actually is.

Starting yesterday and this morning I suddenly noticed a number of month old accounts that have been spamming nothing but anti-Iran sentiments with hyper-fixation. I mean, with a name like Whitey___McPrivilege I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting going into that comment history.

Syria didn't work, let's try I ran.

US State Department Hints at Iran Overthrow